Chico >> The first meeting of the committee to pick a replacement for Chico State University president Paul Zingg will be 1-3 p.m. Nov. 10* in Laxson Auditorium.

Zingg has announced he will retire at the end of the academic year.

The public is welcome at the Nov. 10 open forum, which is to review the role of the committee, receive comments and discuss preferred attributes of the next president, and any other business related to the search process.

Trustee Douglas Faigin will chair the committee. The other trustee members are Adam Day, Steven G. Stepanek, and Maggie K. White, as well as board Chair Lou Monville and CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White.

There’s also an advisory committee. Its members include Farshad Azad, University Advisory Board representative; Elizabeth “Betsy” Boyd, faculty member and chair of the Chico State Academic Senate; Joseph I. Castro, president of Fresno State University; Deanna Jarquin, student and Associated Students president; Bob Linscheid, community member; Elaina McReynolds, staff representative; Jimmy Reed, alumni representative; Rafael Sanchez, community member; Paula Selvester, faculty member and coordinator, Liberal Studies Program; Eddie Vela, dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Charles G. Zartman, faculty member and director of Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Studies.

The open forum will be live streamed on the web at http://calstate.edu/livestream. People unable to attend can email suggestions to presidentsearch@calstate.edu.

For more information call 898-5201.

An earlier version of this story had an incorrect date for the meeting.